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to see the energy of it and how it connects with the performers. it's inspiring actually. they're finding things in ways of performing that we didn't know. it gives you a lot of hope for the future. >> brown: in his 75th year philip glass is being honored and celebratedded in concerts around the world and einstein on the beach is back and has challenged and engaged audiences. >> ifill: the "einstein on the beach" tour continues this coming weekend. >> woodruff: again, the major developments of the day, the presidential candidates beat a path to battleground states after their final debate. it marked the beginning of an all-out push to the election, 14 days from now. and wall street had one of its worst days of the year after a series of disappointing earnings reports. the dow industrials fell more than 240 points. a stint in the hospital is never easy. online we offer ways to make it more manageable. hari sreenivasan explains. >> sreenivasan: we have a patient checklist, simple steps you can take to make sure your next hospital visit is safe and cost-efficient. that's part
to see the energy of it and how it connects with the performers. it's inspiring actually. they're finding things in ways of performing that we didn't know. it gives you a lot of hope for the future. >> brown: in his 75th year philip glass is being honored and celebratedded in concerts around the world and einstein on the beach is back and has challenged and engaged audiences. >> ifill: the "einstein on the beach" tour continues this coming weekend. >> woodruff:...
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for example, energy prices have fallen a lot. and there are some other things you can count to on the upside. but so far businesses have been very reluctant to invest heavily, very reluctant to hire heavily. >> muhamed el-erian what do you see-- when you look at all this data coming in, what is most important to you? >> a few things. first the employment picture. and not just whether we're eating jobs or not. that's important. but also what's happening to those who remain unemployed. and that is a pretty worsening picture. that's why i call 2 a crisis. because long-term unemployment is really high. and youth unemployment is really high. and these are longer-term issues that we need to deal with. so the employment picture is very important. second, clarity for businesses. today no one has the confidence to invest. there is a ton of money, judy, on the sideline, a ton of money. and if we can engage that money in the system would be great. an third as ken rightly said, the global economy. we are facing he is vore headwinds. so a num
for example, energy prices have fallen a lot. and there are some other things you can count to on the upside. but so far businesses have been very reluctant to invest heavily, very reluctant to hire heavily. >> muhamed el-erian what do you see-- when you look at all this data coming in, what is most important to you? >> a few things. first the employment picture. and not just whether we're eating jobs or not. that's important. but also what's happening to those who remain...
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into the energy mix. >> suarez: dan arvisu directs the national renewable energy lab in colorado. he concedes the new supplies of cheap gas have challenged the cost-effectiveness of new technologies. natural gas is a bridge to the new technologies his scientists are inventing, he says, not a replacement for them. cheap gas buys some time. >> if we did not have natural gas as this potential opportunity, then i think we would be in a much more urgent set of conditions than we are today. so it would give us a ttle bit of time to really solve the problem much more deliberately, and hopefully that has long lasting impacts. >> suarez: arvisu notes every energy source has benefits and costs. gas offers flexibility-- after all, the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow. a power plant can throw a switch and start burning gas, something you can't do with coal. >> so, backing off of this is a really bad idea. >> suarez: the former governor told me you can't stop investing in renewables even while taking full advantage of new gas supplies. >> we have to view this as a glob
into the energy mix. >> suarez: dan arvisu directs the national renewable energy lab in colorado. he concedes the new supplies of cheap gas have challenged the cost-effectiveness of new technologies. natural gas is a bridge to the new technologies his scientists are inventing, he says, not a replacement for them. cheap gas buys some time. >> if we did not have natural gas as this potential opportunity, then i think we would be in a much more urgent set of conditions than we are...
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. >> woodruff: still to come on the newshour: welfare's promise and reality; an energy compromise in utah; why words matter to justice antonin scalia; china's celebrated murder trial; and women score big at the olympics. but first, the other news of the day. here's kwame holman. >> reporter: severe drought conditions have spread across even more of the u.s. breadbasket. that's the latest finding from the ought monitor report by federal agencies and the university of nebraska. their weekly map shows areas of extreme or exceptional drought-- marked here in red and burgundy- - grew by 2% from the week before. the lack of rainfall has hit producers of corn and soybeans especially hard and pushed world commodity prices sharply higher. more bad news for the nearly insolvent u.s. postal service. it lost $5.2 billion from april to june, much more than the same period last year. the bulk of the loss came from the projected cost of health benefits for future postal retirees. last week, the postal service failed for the first time ever to make a scheduled payment for those benefits. syrian troo
. >> woodruff: still to come on the newshour: welfare's promise and reality; an energy compromise in utah; why words matter to justice antonin scalia; china's celebrated murder trial; and women score big at the olympics. but first, the other news of the day. here's kwame holman. >> reporter: severe drought conditions have spread across even more of the u.s. breadbasket. that's the latest finding from the ought monitor report by federal agencies and the university of nebraska. their...
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. >> woodruff: ray suarez continues our ries on america's energy resources with a report from utah about an unusual agreement to drill for gas on public lands. >> what we've shown here is that there are compromises that can be reached that protect the special places while still allowing for a robust level of natural gas and oil development. >> brown: margaret warner interviews supreme court justice antonin scalia about his new book, a guide for judges on how to interpret the text of the law. >> the trick for a judges to see where the bance sides. it's like a murder mystery. there are clues pointing one way, pointing another way. which clues are more persuasive? >> woodruff: we have a report from beijing on the closely watched murder trial of gu kailai, the wife of a disgraced communist party official. >> brown: and we close with a look at the golden successes of women athletes at the london games. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. and by the alfred p. sloan
. >> woodruff: ray suarez continues our ries on america's energy resources with a report from utah about an unusual agreement to drill for gas on public lands. >> what we've shown here is that there are compromises that can be reached that protect the special places while still allowing for a robust level of natural gas and oil development. >> brown: margaret warner interviews supreme court justice antonin scalia about his new book, a guide for judges on how to interpret the...
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the energy company anadarko had a lot riding on the greater natural buttes project, and the numbers are staggering: 3,700 wells, six trillion cubic feet of gas reserves, billions to be paid in royalties to the state government of utah and to the federal government, and thousands of jobs created. the only question was, could they pull all that gas out of the ground and make peace with environmentalists and indian tribes to save one of america's last great landscapes? >> the several feet that we would see in this, we could drill in an hour or less. >> suarez: brad miller, who runs regulatory affairs for anadarko, understood the importance of bringing environmental groups on board. >> if people can come to an agreement before you have to go to a regulatory agency to discuss the opportunities for development, of course that's going to be a plus for the company and for all the stakeholders involved. >> suarez: the secretary of the interior oversees the bureau of land management. with the parties already in agreement, there's no litigation, less hassle and more natural gas going to market rig
the energy company anadarko had a lot riding on the greater natural buttes project, and the numbers are staggering: 3,700 wells, six trillion cubic feet of gas reserves, billions to be paid in royalties to the state government of utah and to the federal government, and thousands of jobs created. the only question was, could they pull all that gas out of the ground and make peace with environmentalists and indian tribes to save one of america's last great landscapes? >> the several feet...
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i think the three are economic relations, energy, potential cooperation with the united states and mexico, security issue. i would also add the drug question is related to security but is separate from security. the drug issue has been a source of a lot of strain and friction between the united states and mexico. there's a sense that there's consumption in the united states. that is fueling some of the criminal violence that has gotten out of control in mexico. immigration, of course, is a crucial issue which is very important for mexico, for the united states it's not seen as a foreign policy issue. it's seen as a domestic issue. for mexico it's extremely important, the relationship. to the extent there could be any progress on immigration reform in the united states, that would be very much welcome in mexico. >> suarez: as you note, security and drugs are both related and separate at the same time. but just when american voters in a couple of states have decriminalized the use of marijuana we're getting a new mexican president who had signaled during the campaign that he wanted to depar
i think the three are economic relations, energy, potential cooperation with the united states and mexico, security issue. i would also add the drug question is related to security but is separate from security. the drug issue has been a source of a lot of strain and friction between the united states and mexico. there's a sense that there's consumption in the united states. that is fueling some of the criminal violence that has gotten out of control in mexico. immigration, of course, is a...
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-certified, or designed with energy efficiency in mind. and any project that includes a green roof in its application gets a faster permitting process. faster permits mean faster move- ins and more revenue. that, combined with energy savings, is the kind of green that incentivizes developers like jason westrope. >> if every rooftop in chicago was covered with green roof, the city could save $100 million in energy every year, so there is a direct benefit between the amount of heat energy gained by a building that's not covered, or protected, by a green roof, and that does translate into cooling costs downstairs. >> sreenivasan: downstairs is 900 michigan avenue, a luxury retail, office, and condo building. the green roof was installed because of the city's incentives, but they expanded it when they realized it was attracting tenants. chicago is also taking the fight to the streets. to see one of chicago's most ambitious projects, we met janet attarian in a downtown alley. she is a project director for ththththththnt of transportation. >> wh
-certified, or designed with energy efficiency in mind. and any project that includes a green roof in its application gets a faster permitting process. faster permits mean faster move- ins and more revenue. that, combined with energy savings, is the kind of green that incentivizes developers like jason westrope. >> if every rooftop in chicago was covered with green roof, the city could save $100 million in energy every year, so there is a direct benefit between the amount of heat energy...
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this fight is not over yet. >> woodruff: vali nasr, is it because they have a new energy, new strategic advantage on their side? is that what's going on here with the taliban? >> well, they have capability to plan and to do new things. so we went into the south in helmand and pushed them out of their territories and we declared victory. they moved that they can carry out assassinations, kill afghan officials. we can terrorize the population. they can attack u.s. bases. they have also proven the ability to infiltrate the afghan military which is what we're telling the afghan population is a really golden solution to afghanistan is this military and the taliban are already proving it to be porous. that sort of undermines our whole narrative to the afghan population. there's a great deal of ability for them to pick what fronts they want to confront us on rather than the one that we chose to fight them on in the south. >> woodruff: is that what's going on, that they know what the u.s. strategy is and basically they're trying to outsmart? >> we've been very clear on what our strategy is, tha
this fight is not over yet. >> woodruff: vali nasr, is it because they have a new energy, new strategic advantage on their side? is that what's going on here with the taliban? >> well, they have capability to plan and to do new things. so we went into the south in helmand and pushed them out of their territories and we declared victory. they moved that they can carry out assassinations, kill afghan officials. we can terrorize the population. they can attack u.s. bases. they have...
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he is the former head of the international atomic energy agency and a nobel peace prize winner. . >> ifill: thank you for joinings us. you called egypt to reject the -- what's recan to how it turned out? >> it is going to pass but it's a sad day in my view for egypt because it is going to institutionalize stability, very polarizing charter, defines a lot of the basic human value like treatment woman of religion, freedom of expression, so i'm not sure that this is the way forward. however, we would have to take it from there and i think that we treat that constitution try to get another assembly to work, that is not polarizing but establish a consensus among the two divided fraction of the society. right now we have educated middle class on one camp and the so-called islamists and majority of the illiterate part on the other side. that's not the way we expected after the uprising. we need a charter that unifies people that not talking about controversial issues like role, freedom of expression, freedom of religion, freedom of worship but talk about science, technology, health care, th
he is the former head of the international atomic energy agency and a nobel peace prize winner. . >> ifill: thank you for joinings us. you called egypt to reject the -- what's recan to how it turned out? >> it is going to pass but it's a sad day in my view for egypt because it is going to institutionalize stability, very polarizing charter, defines a lot of the basic human value like treatment woman of religion, freedom of expression, so i'm not sure that this is the way forward....
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he held a similar post at the department of energy during the second clinton administration. welcome, mr.pect. so what's the significance of these reports f true that the iaea has found hundreds of centrifuges. >> this a plant everybody is very nervous about. it's buried and very difficult to attack because of this, it is in a mountainside as we heard. the number of units in the plant are going up steadily and nothing we seem to be doing such as export controls, interdictions, sanctions seems to be slowing the program down. and at this rate the plant will be completed and fully with 3,000 centrifuges by thend of the year. >> warner: and is that faster than anticipated? >> i think there was some hesitation because it looked as if they had all of these empty casings for the centrifuges and now they are filling them. some this thought that they really didn't sd not have that ability. and that's a very negative development. >> warner: part of the report is also said-- to say that iran has particularly stepped up its production of this richer grade of uranium, 20% level. what does
he held a similar post at the department of energy during the second clinton administration. welcome, mr.pect. so what's the significance of these reports f true that the iaea has found hundreds of centrifuges. >> this a plant everybody is very nervous about. it's buried and very difficult to attack because of this, it is in a mountainside as we heard. the number of units in the plant are going up steadily and nothing we seem to be doing such as export controls, interdictions, sanctions...